Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Amy Finkelstein and Brian G. Knight
April 4-5, 2013
NBER, 1050 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 4

1

Enlisting Workers in Monitoring Firms: Payroll Tax Compliance in Mexico

Todd J. Kumler, Columbia University
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER
Judith A. FrIas, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

2

What Distributional Impacts Mean: Welfare Reform Experiments and Competing Margins of Adjustment

Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
melissa tartari, University of Chicago

3

The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets: Husbanding or Squandering?

James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Steven F. Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER
David A. Wise, Harvard University and NBER

4

Do fixed patent terms distort innovation? Evidence from cancer clinical trials

Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin N. Roin, Independent Researcher
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER